Ph.D. New School for Social Research, 1975
Email:
rburger@tulane.edu
Office:
105F Newcomb Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3381
Academic Interests:
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Philosophy of Religion
Books:
Books edited:
- The Argument of the
Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Seth
Benardete (Chicago, 2000)
- Encounters and
Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete .
(Chicago, 2002)
Selected Articles:
- "The Erotic and the Thumotic Soul,"
Interpretation, Winter 2004-05.
- "Aristotle on Mimesis: The Visual Image and the Plot
of Tragedy," Key Writers on the Arts,
December 2002.
- "Making New Gods: on Plato's Euthyphro," in
Plato and Platonism, edited by
Jan M. Van Ophuijsen, (The Catholic University of America Press, 2000).
- "Male and Female Created He Them: Some Platonic
Reflections on Genesis 1-3," in The
Nature of Woman and the Art of Politics, edited by Eduardo
Velasquez, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
Recent Papers Presented
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"Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil:
The Guide of the Perplexed I.2,"
American Philosophical Association, December 2007.
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“Self-Restraint and Virtue: Sages and
Philosophers in Maimonides’ Eight Chapters,” American
Philosophical Association, December 2006.
